Chapter 1: Introducing the Cloud Computing Platform

Cloud and Platform

Relevance of the Cloud Platform

Cloud Platform Benefits

Your Application and Cloud Platform Matchup

Does Your Application Belong on the Cloud Platform?

On-premises and Cloud Platform Integration

Heterogeneity of the Cloud Platform

Trust and Security

Cloud Platform Services

Compute Services

Networking

Storage and Data Services

App Services

Summary

Chapter 2: Cloud Applications

Cloud Application and Platforms

What's aaS?

Platform Types

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

Other Cloud Application Platforms

Cloud Web Services

Cloud Managed Services

Cloud Application Deployment Models

Public Cloud Platform

Private Cloud

Hybrid Cloud

Summary

Chapter 3: Hardened Cloud Applications

Hardened Applications

Hello World vs. Real World?

Real-World and Hardened Applications

Availability

Reliability

Scalability

Recoverability

Security

Low Latency

Modern Organization

Engineering

Support

Summary

Chapter 4: Service Fundamentals: Instrumentation, Telemetry, and Monitoring

Instrumentation

Best practices for Designing the Instrumentation

High-value and High-volume Data

Event Tracing

Azure Diagnostics

Telemetry

Best Practices for Designing Telemetry

Monitoring

Typical Monitoring Solutions

Best Practices for Designing Monitoring

Vendor and Third-Party Solutions

Summary

Chapter 5: Key Application Experiences: Latency, Scalability, and Throughput

Latency

Factors That Affect Latency

Best Practices

Scalability

Scaling Up

Scaling Out

Best Practices

Throughput

Best Practices

Summary

Chapter 6: Failures and Their Inevitability

Case Studies of Major Cloud Service Failures

Azure Blob Storage Failure Amazon Web Services Failure

Measuring Failures

Failure Categories

Hard Failure

Soft Failure

Gray Failures

Preparing for Failure

Design for Failure and a Quick Recovery

Minimizing Human Error

Summary

Chapter 7: Failures and Recovery

Design Best Practices

Failure Domains

Loose Coupling

Scale-Out to More, and for Cheaper

Testing Best Practices

Sandboxing

Scenario Testing

Failure-Detection Strategies

IaaS Virtual Infrastructure

PaaS Application

Databases

Storage

Network

Strategies for Recovery

Dev-Test-Ops Organization

Remote Script Execution

Summary

Chapter 8: High Availability, Scalability, and Disaster Recovery

High Availability

Asynchronous Messaging

Atomic and Idempotent Services

Graceful Degradation

Offline Access

Scalability

Implementation Patterns

Disaster Recovery

PaaS-SQL Offering

PaaS-Storage

IaaS-SQL Server as a Virtual Machine Offering

Summary

Chapter 9: Availability and Economics of 9s

Economics of 9s

Economics of (Non)-Availability

Computing Availability

Monitoring Availability

Enforcing Availability via SLA

Designing for SLA

Redundant System

Cold Standby System

Warm Standby System

Automatic Failover System

Always Available System

Economics of Downtime and Availability

Downtime Costs

Availability Costs

Summary

Chapter 10: Securing Your Application

Security

Controls

Operational Security

Platform Security

Compliance

Azure and Compliance

Compliance for Your Application

Privacy and Data Security

Platform Services

Platform Operations

Role and Responsibilities

Cloud Application Security

Application Vulnerabilities

Building Secure Applications

Summary

Chapter 11: The Modernization of Software Organizations

The Impetus

The Goal-MVP

Modernization

People

Process

Tooling

Management Behaviors

Summary

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